Hair-pin.



J. BTLADD.

HAIR PIN.

APPLICATION FILED NOV- 27, 911.

Patented Apr. 2'7, 191.

INVENTOR WITNESSES ATTORNEY a hair pin containing three prongs. The

I JAMES B. LADD, 0F ARDMORE, PENNSYLVANIA.

HAIR-PIN.

Pennsylvania, have invented a new and use ful Hair-Pin, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in hair pins.

The object is to provide improved means whereby, in manipulating the device, the free ends of the prongs will be made to change their relative positions before or while inserting the device in the hair and upon releasing the same said free ends will tend to assume the initial position to firmly clamp'or embrace the hair engaged between the prongs.

Referring to the drawings illustrating, merely by way of example, suitable means for effecting my invention Figure l is a perspective View of one side of the hair pin. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the other side of the hair pin. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the hair pin held in the hand and pressed between the fingers so as to cause a displacement or a change in the relative positions of the free ends of the prongs.

I have shown merely by way of example two outer prongs 4 and 5 are shown straight from the upper connecting ends of said prongs, which we will call the head, while the middle prong 6 is provided with a bend 7 out oftheplane in which the other two pron s and the balance of prong 6 normally he connecting ends of the prongs are Specification of Letters fatent. Patented Apr. 27, 1915. Application filed November 27, 1911.

Serial No. 662,557.

substantially fixed or immovable with respect to one another, but resiliently related as to their free ends.

By referring to Fig. 3, it will be seen that when the device is taken between the thumb and finger and pressure exerted on the hump or bend 7 by the thumb and the opposite side of adjacent prongs, the lower end of prong 6 is thrown considerable out of the plane in which prongs 4 and 5 remain. By then inserting the device in the hair and re- .leasing the same, prong 6 tends to return,

ng a hump or extension projectin out of' said common plane and adjacent t e head, said hump or extension provided for the purpose of throwing a prong out of said common plane by exerting pressure on said hump and the opposite sides of adjacent prongs, as and for the purpose specified.

v JAMES B. LADD.

W'itnesses:

LOUISE B. MORRIS, MAE HOFMANN. 

